Round 2: Tossup 9

A piece for guitar in this genre begins with the ascending pickups “B, E, portamento up to G,” each marked by a fermata, (15[1])followed by two F-sharp seven chords in a dotted eighth-sixteenth rhythm. After a composer was evicted in absentia from his Parisian apartment, the scores to his last two pieces in this genre were lost. The diminutive name for this genre is popularly applied to “Lamentos” and other pieces by Pixinguinha (“PEE-shin-GEEN-ya”). Ernesto Nazareth premiered a composer’s first of fourteen (15[1])pieces for various instruments in this genre. Seven-string (*) guitars often play the bass line in this folk genre whose bands typically contain flute and cavaquinho (“ca-va-KEEN-yo”). The poem “Rasga o Coraçao” is set in the tenth piece in this genre by Heitor Villa-Lobos (“EY-tor VEE-lah LOW-boosh”). For 10 points, name this Brazilian folk genre whose name literally means “weeping.” ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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